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turtles
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 Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 8:18 pm Post subject: Firefox use flags / optimizations |
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Greetings all, what are people are setting for firefox use flags these days?
What I see available is:
| Code: | | USE="dbus gmp-autoupdate jack nsplugin system-icu wifi -bindist -custom-cflags -custom-optimization -debug -hardened -hwaccel (-neon) -pgo -pulseaudio (-selinux) -startup-notification (-system-cairo) -system-harfbuzz -system-jpeg -system-libevent -system-libvpx -system-sqlite {-test} (-jemalloc%*)" |
There are some descriptions on the wiki https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Firefox#USE_flags
I am curious if anyone sets hwaccel or any of the 'system' ones? and if there is an improvement?
Also pgo?
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thumper
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| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 11:12 pm Post subject: Re: Firefox use flags / optimizations |
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| turtles wrote: |
I am curious if anyone sets hwaccel or any of the 'system' ones? and if there is an improvement?
Also pgo?
cheers |
I'm using hwaccel and it has made a performance improvement and working well for me in at least the last few versions of firefox, I have a AMD RX-480 video card.
My flags:
| Code: | | dbus gmp-autoupdate hwaccel nsplugin pulseaudio startup-notification system-harfbuzz system-icu system-jpeg system-libevent system-libvpx system-sqlite -bindist -custom-cflags -custom-optimization -debug -hardened -jack -neon -pgo -selinux -system-cairo -test -wifi |
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CaptainBlood
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2017 6:13 am Post subject: |
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Here: | Code: | | Installed versions: 52.3.0(08:21:17 12/09/2017)(bindist custom-cflags custom-optimization dbus gmp-autoupdate gtk2 jack jemalloc pulseaudio startup-notification system-harfbuzz system-icu system-jpeg system-libevent system-libvpx system-sqlite wifi -debug -hardened -hwaccel -neon -pgo -rust -selinux -system-cairo -test |
Despite achieved build, pgo is a show stopper here, with scrambled letters at text display.
Network and image displays are fine, though.
rust packages set in gentoo doesn't seem to mach implicit requirements for this firefox version.
Maybe latest unstable firefox matches, haven't tried it yet.
As for hwaccel, here is a HD4000 Intel, so my guess is that it shouldn't be useful (might be wrong).
Thks 4 ur attention. |
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Maitreya
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2017 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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| CaptainBlood wrote: | Here: | Code: | | Installed versions: 52.3.0(08:21:17 12/09/2017)(bindist custom-cflags custom-optimization dbus gmp-autoupdate gtk2 jack jemalloc pulseaudio startup-notification system-harfbuzz system-icu system-jpeg system-libevent system-libvpx system-sqlite wifi -debug -hardened -hwaccel -neon -pgo -rust -selinux -system-cairo -test |
Despite achieved build, pgo is a show stopper here, with scrambled letters at text display.
Network and image displays are fine, though.
rust packages set in gentoo doesn't seem to mach implicit requirements for this firefox version.
Maybe latest unstable firefox matches, haven't tried it yet.
As for hwaccel, here is a HD4000 Intel, so my guess is that it shouldn't be useful (might be wrong).
Thks 4 ur attention. |
Same for me, had to disable PGO again to be able to read anything. |
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CaptainBlood
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2017 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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Google says somewhere that pgo forces -O3 optimisations.
AFAIR pgo used to launch program requesting user to handle it before a second compilation cycle.
It didn't request user handle of the program.
I don't understand why and how pgo works.
Maybe there is a way to restore that old pgo behavoir with pgo disabled as a build flag but forced somewhere else at portage level.
As a side note pgo shrinked binary size from ~101 to ~78, which is possibly too much...
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Juippisi
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Last time I used pgo, it worked like, it first compiled Firefox, then it opened the compiled Firefox to run some tests (during build), made adjustments and compiled it again with different settings. So during the compilation it would just open a new firefox session, run some tests, and continue compiling. It took twice as long to build firefox with pgo on. I havent used it in a while though.
The thing with system- flags is that it doesnt use libs that Firefox ships, and it _can_ lead to problems (like garbled fonts for example). However, the libs that firefox ships are usually quite old and might have security issues. I personally only use system-libvpx, havent run any tests how the other system- flags affect my usage. It works well enough with these.
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USE="dbus gmp-autoupdate hwaccel pulseaudio startup-notification system-libvpx -bindist -custom-cflags -custom-optimization -debug -hardened -jack (-neon) -nsplugin -pgo (-selinux) (-system-cairo) -system-harfbuzz -system-icu -system-jpeg -system-libevent -system-sqlite {-test} -wifi"
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turtles
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks everyone for the info I'll tryout hwaccel a few of the system ones and avoid pgo and see if I get an improvement.
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